Published on Current.org, April 18, 2014

• The Peabody Award–winning Race Card Project, the brainchild of NPR’s Michele Norris, has become part of an ambitious reporting project from ProPublica. Segregation Now is an in-depth look at resegregation of U.S. schools. ProPublica and Race Card are looking for six-word submissions about the state of race and education in America.

• NPR West in Los Angeles “has been transformed from a moribund satellite operation into a state-of-the-art production house” since Weekend All Things Considered began production there in September, reports Los Angeles magazine. Former Day to Day host Alex Chadwick, laid off in 2009, remains skeptical. NPR “lost a lot of ground here” with the cuts that included his job, he tells the mag.